frock: [14] Frock is a Germanic word, although English acquired it via Old French froc. It originally meant ‘long coat or tunic’ – a sense reflected in the related Old High German hroc ‘mantle, coat’, and preserved in English frock coat and unfrock ‘dismiss from the office of clergyman’ (frock once having denoted a ‘priest’s cassock’, and hence symbolized the priestly office). Its application to a ‘woman’s dress’ dates from the 16th century.
frock (n.)
mid-14c., from Old French froc "a monk's habit; clothing, dress" (12c.), which is of unknown origin; perhaps from Frankish *hrok or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German hroc "mantle, coat;" Old Norse rokkr, Old English rocc, Old Frisian rokk, German Rock "a coat, over-garment"). Another theory traces it to an alteration of Medieval Latin floccus, from Latin floccus "flock of wool." Meaning "outer garment for women or children" is from 1530s. Frock-coat attested by 1819.
例文
1. Few Englishmen wear frock coats now.They went out years ago.
現在、イギリス人は大きなドレスを着ることが少なく、大きなドレスは数年前から流行していない。
2.That frock shows your petticoat.
その上着は短すぎて、あなたのペチコートを露出させました。
3.The frock is now out of style.
というブラウスはもう新しくない。
4.She stood up and smoothed down her frock .
彼女は立ち上がり、スカートを平らにした。
5.I do hope you have some other frock besides that one.